Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1883 — How a Dog Yawns. [ARTICLE]

How a Dog Yawns.

When a dog gapes he doesn’t screw his face into ad sorts of unnatural shapes in an endeavor to keep his mouth shut with his jaws open. Neither does he put his paw up to his face in an apologetic way, while gaping in ambush, as it were. No, sir; when he gapes, he is perfectly willing that the whole world shall come to the show. He braces himself first on his fore feet, stretches out his neck, depresses his head; and his jaws open with graceful moderation. At first it is but an exaggerated grin; but* when the gopa is apparently accomplished, the dog turns out his elbows, opens his jaws another 45 degrees, swallows an imaginary bone by a sudden and convulsive movement, curls up his tongue like the petal of a tiger lily, and shuts his jaws together with a snap. Then he assumes a grave and eon ten tedvisage.as is eminently becoming to one who has performeda duty successfully and conscientiously